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…in die phänomenologische Philosophie (1936; The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology), Husserl arrived at the life-world—the world as shaped within the immediate experience of each person—by questioning back to the foundations that the sciences presuppose. In Die Krisis he analyzed the European crisis of culture and philosophy, which…

continental philosophy

…pure “intuition of essence.” In The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (1935), Husserl described phenomenological reduction as a type of life-transforming rite of passage. The phenomenological standpoint is attainable, he wrote, “only through a total change of the natural attitude, such that we no longer live, as…